irage wrote:I had few questions about the fan patch ,
First of all how many players can u rope in to use the fan patch , there are a lot of people who don''t use the esoc community site, maybe like Japanese community, wont that reduce the number of games we already have , like lets say in qs or something. ( community will split and we obviously get lesser games, as in my personal opinion there arent new players who are going to join coz its a fan patch)
Then about the esoc maps , arent they more 1v1 oriented , what about team games considering both 2v2 and 3v3 as map size and resources should be different as per the game scenario.
Is this fan patch tad oriented only and keep nilla the same, or u planning to modify nilla as well.
Lastly, what about the cheaters, since this is a fan patch , basically a modded patch , eso would never care banning cheaters , atleast now we have a slight hope that cheaters do get banned for a week atleast like it happened in the case of moesbar,bpds and probably offence repeated could lead to a bigger ban.
An admin reply would be appreciated, thanks.
The number of players of any rank that will adopt the fan patch was one of our main concerns if not exactly the most important one. That''s why a poll. Not gonna lie, we''re pretty optimistic about that, as GS mentioned numbers are good (players activity, + members of the community, viewer count, etc.).
Japanese players did play the fan patch in the past. They even have a section on their site where you can download it and where you find the notes of the changes. I think they overall liked the idea but perhaps weren''t completely happy about all changes. Can''t blame them for that.
It''s easy to get in touch with them to promote the fan patch. Quicksearch will be availabe on the fan patch on ESOC maps (or perhaps even standard+esoc) and anyway changes will be limited so no drastic adaptation will be required. Most of changes are out of common sense afterall.
Also switching between official and fan patch will be merely a matter of clicking on a different icon, making it as easy as it can gets. In case of further patches in the future (to add maps or whatever) the update will be automatic just by launching the fan patch itself. Pretty much like the updates on eso.
As for maps, ESOC maps will be avaliable for rated games of course. And this means that they will be available for 1v1, team or FFA, just like other standard maps. It''s only a matter of time to convert them.
The patch is for TAD, nilla won''t be touched. Why Nilla anyway in 2015?
As for cheaters we can''t enforce bans, but who knows maybe Aizamk the wizard will make the impossible possible once again